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Business Line reported that Russian Railways backed joint company, BHEL and Hindustan Aeronautical Ltd backed Indo Russian Aviation Ltd have expressed interest in developing a LNG turbine based locomotive for heavy and long haul operations.

Research Design and Standards Organization, the research arm of Indian Railways had invited expressions of interest to develop a locomotive prototype equipped with a single gas turbine operating on LNG. This is expected to bring down the operating cost of locomotives.

Mr Kotla Jaya Surya Prakash Reddy minister of State of Railways said that 3 parties have shown interest joint stock company led by Russian Railway Research Institute, Moscow; Indo Russian Aviation Ltd and BHEL.